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Marianthus tenuis

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Family Pittosporaceae

Taxonomy: Marianthus tenuis Benth.

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Billardiera parviflora DC. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Billardiera parviflora DC. var. parviflora (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Billardiera parviflora var. guttata E.M.Benn. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Marianthus gracilis Ostenf. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (25), Collette_2021 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wheeler_2002 (9). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 49 records in 10 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 8.5 mm (8-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 24.75 mm (15-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 6.25 mm (4-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.45 cm (0.4-0.5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1); unlobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); climber_woody (1); shrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1); woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnyy (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): morphophysiological_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.4-2.6 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_width (numerical): 1.4 mm (1.3-1.5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.6 m (0.6-0.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231925Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wheeler_200279J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.